John Reed Books

This book thoroughly explains each commonly used electrotherapy modality, the physiological indications for its use, and gives thorough guidelines and principles for the dosage and application of each.

It is presented in traditional textbook style and makes use of clear diagrams and graphs to aid one's understanding of concepts. After reading each chapter you will be able to apply principles in a logical way to decide on appropriate treatment for your patient's specific condition.

It is however not an "quick reference" book where you can quickly find the dosage to use for a particular modality. The book is aimed at giving the reader a thorough understanding of why and how to use a chosen modality and would not be easy to use at a glance in a busy practice.

Recommended for students and those with time to read chapters thoroughly.

This is a great little book, full of photographs and detailed descriptions. It also seems to be the only guide to New Zealand alpine flora I could find. It is a little bit dated in publication but of course the plants haven't changed much in my lifetime!

You can currently buy this book at John's website for $29.95 NEW. Let this be your first lesson in finance.

This book is a good beginners guide to how to use this older version of Cobol. I have used it in the past and it seems to explain how to do the most of the functions that I needed to do. However, the software that it describes in the book only runs well on a Windows 3.1x machine and not well on anything newer than that. But the book does do a good job of explaining the software.

I really enjoyed this book! John Billings' writing style is such that the book is full of humorous moments! The book itself was written in 1888 (many years after the Civil War) and describes various of camp life. Some of the areas he discusses are: enlisting, building shelters, standing watches, and how the armies re-supplied. There are many illustrations to go along with the chapters that were sketched by another member of a Massachusetts Regiment. Many of these drawings are humorous as well, which made it visually more attractive to me. The chapters are well written and designed. The author takes the material from his own soldiering experiences, newspapers, and interviews with other soldiers after the Civil War. I highly recommend this book as a primary source.

Perhaps you can get an appreciation for the complexities of language, and why language makes us human, by seeing what happens when children have problems with it. Reed describes in detail the numerous types of learning disabilities that a teacher can face.

Some kids might have underdeveloped lexical accumulations, giving rise to a sparse vocabulary and diminished knowledge. They might fixate on literal meanings of some words. Other kids could possess poor word retrieval.

Of course, all difficulties with spoken languages invariably ripple through to problems with writing. The foundations of writing stem from those for speech. Various countermeasures are suggested; ie. remedial pedagogies that have been tried by researchers and educators.

If you're interested in sociology, or in the culture of the South, this book is worth reading. It's a sociological study of the types of people who worked in textile mills in an unnamed medium-size city in an unnamed Southern state in the late 1940s/early 1950s. The author, John Kenneth Morland, lived in the mill community for an extended period of time (almost a year) while observing the interactions amongst the mill workers, and between them and the other segments of society (the mill "townies" and the rural farming society from whence came the mill workers). Morland writes well enough that the prose is not stultifyingly academic, and the statistical tables are numerous enough to illustrate the points being made, but don't overwhelm the book. So, if you're of Southern descent and wish to learn a little about how your grandparents or other relatives may have lived in the mill culture (which extended from the late 19th century to the mid 1970s), then this book is worth reading. I'm looking forward to reading the companion volumes, which examine the African-American society of the time, and the remnants of the plantation culture, as soon as I can find those out-of-print books.

This book is about Don Stott and "Z" Force, a New Zealand & Australian special forces unit that operated in SE Asia in WW2. Z Force was an ANZAC unit that conducted some successful raids on the Japanese in SE Asia, much of the experience for setting up the unit having come from the British SAS, SOE and Commando units and from ANZAC troops who had served with these units earlier in the war. Don Stott was one of these, the book largely focuses on him and the Kiwi contribution to Z force. There were other raids conducted by primarily Australian troops on Singapore - there's a couple of other good books on these.

Donald John Stott was born in Birkenhead on 23 October 1914, and grew up in the district. When he left school he joined the New Zealand Herald as a rotary machinist. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army in 1940, and quickly rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Artillery. During 1940 he left New Zealand with the Second Echelon. He fought in Greece and in the Crete campaign of May 1941, where he was wounded and captured by the Germans. After spending two months in a Prisoner of War camp in Greece he escaped, and after seven months on the run, managed to obtain a boat and sail across the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa where he rejoined his unit.

In 1942 Don Stott was commissioned. He was asked if he was interested in going back to Greece to carry out sabotage work, to which he readily agreed. He attended a parachute course, and after many delays, finally parachuted into Greece in March 1943, where he made contact with guerilla bands who were fighting the Germans. During his period in Greece, Don Stott was responsible for many acts of sabotage, one of which was carrying out a daring raid that resulted in the demolition of the strategically crucial, heavily defended and virtually inaccessible Aspos Gorge railway viaduct, one of the greatest exploits of the Second World War, and one which changed the course of the war in Greece. For this action he was recommended by his commanding officer for The Victoria Cross, but because there had been no shots fired during the action, was eventually awarded the Distinguished Service Order. The Colonel who was Second-in-Command of the British Mission to Greece described Don Stott as "the bravest man I ever knew".

Towards the end of 1943 the Germans realised that the war on the Eastern Front was going badly for them, and as Italy had capitulated, the odds were against them. They therefore wished to discuss the possibility of a truce. The Mayor of Athens approached Don Stott and asked him to a meeting with the Germans to discuss proposals for peace. Although this would place him at considerable risk, Don agreed to take part, and after many meetings was given safe passage by the Germans to Turkey, from where he returned to Cairo to put the proposals to the Allies. Although nothing came of the proposals, Don was awarded a Bar to his D.S.O. for his part in the operation.

Major Don Stott returned to New Zealand in May 1944, before going to Australia where he was on loan to the Australian Army as an expert on Special Service work. There he was attached to "Z" Special Unit, a highly secret force of commandos and saboteurs, which was to create havoc behind enemy lines in south-east Asia. This unit, with Major Don Stott in command, was sent on a special operation into Japanese territory in Borneo. The unit was taken to the area by submarine, and on the night of 20-21 March 1945, a very stormy night, set off in folboats (similar to kayaks) for the shore. Major Don Stott was never sighted again. On that day New Zealand lost one of its bravest heroes, a man who, perhaps, had come to the end of his nine lives after cheating death so many times. He had crammed more into his 30 years than most people would into two lifetimes.

Very interested book on one narrow facet of WW2 special forces ops. Good detail, well-written.

The impetus for the book comes from the ever increasing demand for cheaper bandwidth. The aim is to be able to fabricate semiconductor hardware, implemented in silicon, rather than gallium arsenide, that can interface with an optical fiber. Ideally, this can then take advantage of the massive existing silicon fab infrastructure, both in hardware and expertise.

The book goes into huge detail about the current state of technology needed to try to make this happen. Attention is paid to how to actually make the devices on various configurations, especially silicon on insulator. This has emerged as a very promising avenue for further work. You get practical details on the photolithography and etching. Plus other sundry but essential topics as doping and how to make submicron waveguides.

Though when reading over this information, perhaps one cannot help wondering how much proprietary arcana has been withheld. The secret recipes that the companies in this field hold dear.

Ultimately, the hope of the book is to encourage students and researchers to enter this field and contribute to it.

Let me first point out something strange. The author is listed on Amazon as John Reed, which matches the image of the book cover. However, the book I recieved is written by Bill Miller, although it's clearly the same book. Maybe the author changed his name?

In any case, since there are no prior reviews, and no real description of the book on Amazon, let me first describe the book. It consists of 52+ pages, with 2 pages devoted to each letter of the alphabet. One page simply has a phrase using that letter. The other page has a full-page passage devoted to an idea starting with the letter. For example, the first such ideas are "Absolute certainty," "Buckminster Fuller," "Computers," "Diversity," and "Enlightenment."

So the first question which may come to mind is whether you're getting $5 worth of book. My answer is that there are indeed plenty of books which give you better value for your money, but this book is still worthy of serious consideration. That's because the content of this book does offer genuine wisdom which, if pondered carefully and applied with sincerity, can definitely enhance your life, and that's worth a lot more than $5 (to say the least!). While I can't effectively summarize the book's content in this review, let me just say that it draws mainly on eastern philosophies, as well as mystical traditions in general. If you're already acquainted with these areas, this book may not provide you with much "new" wisdom, but it does reiterate this material in a nice concise way.

Overall, if you have a real desire to expand and deepen your wisdom, regardless of how far you've already progressed in this direction, go ahead and buy this book. If the ideas in the book are new to you, go through the book slowly and let them sink in over time. If the ideas are familiar, re-read the book periodically to revitalize your wisdom -- because the book is so short and concise, you can do that without a large investment of time. This is also a nice book for sharing with others, since it's short enough that even those who don't normally read this type of book might be willing to give it a try.